Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000 /
Mance, Ajuan Maria.
Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.
Invisible bodies, invisible work: nineteenth-century American womanhood and the pastoral of the American homescape -- A "sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century -- The black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance -- Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts movement -- Locating the Black female subject: late-twentieth-century African American women poets and the landscape of the body.
American poetry
Women and literature
Women and literature
African American women
African American women
American poetry
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Gender identity in literature.